Sir Walter Scott

[On school] Not only did I know that I wasn’t one of the smart kids in the class, but so did everyone else.

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

Education can’t focus only on developing our wonderful brain. We also need warm-heartedness. This is my view.

Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.

An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things.

The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.

Learn something new every day.

There was no word dyslexia when I was a kid. You were just dumb.

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.

Do not neglect your life skills, which should include a healthy dose of financial education.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

In addition to an education, kids were supposed to graduate with some basic values, self-discipline, and life skills. A little common sense wouldn’t hurt either. Our schools don’t teach that anymore, instead we’re more concerned about kids having self-esteem and feeling good about themselves than we are about preparing them for real life. The politically correct crowd has taken over our schools, and as a result we are failing our children.

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.